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[[Ego-psychology]] is a [[school]] of [[Sigmund Freud|post-Freudian]] [[psychoanalysis]], derived from [[psychology|child psychology]], [[Freud]]'s [[topology|second topography]] and [[Anna Freud]]'s [[work]] on the [[ego]] and its [[defence]]s. It is based on an elaboration of [[Freud]]'s [[structure|structural model]] of the [[mind]], which focuses almost entirely on the function of the [[ego]] in mediating between the conflicting [[demand]]s of the [[instinctual]] [[id]], the [[moralistic]] [[superego]] and [[external]] [[reality]].
[[Ego Psychology|Ego psychology ]] developed in the United States in the years following the Second [[World]] War and focused on ways of strengthening the defence mechanisms of the [[conscious]] mind rather than the [[unconscious]] motivation of our actions, as in classical psychoanalysis.
Rudolph [[Loewenstein]], Lacan's [[training]] analyst, had been one of the founding fathers of [[Ego Psychology|Ego psychology]], having fled [[Nazi]] [[persecution]] in the 1940s.
==Autonomous Ego==
